I would have trouble booking most of them as their fee expectations would probably outstrip their "pull" with the local folk community

Please, please, please let me get what I want... to quote, erm, Morrissey (sorry!). Maybe I just have unrealistic expectations.

I also know that I've (from a distance) followed the progress of your club and if I lived closer would be there like a shot. You've certainly put on enough stuff that interests me! However, what with keepin' it local, sustainable livin' and all that, you're a bit far for me unless it can be combined with a couple of days away in the old campervan and sold to la famile as a bit of an 'oliday...

I also know that there aren't any folk clubs to compare with yours (or Subcomandante Snail's for that matter) in my locality. Gawd knows I've looked.

I also suspect you might be a man of superhuman energy levels. Or conversely (and apologies here to Brian) I might be merely half-man half-slug.

Anyway it must be true: our generation really did ruin folk for everyone. We went off inventing punk and listening to reggae and so on, finally limping sheepishly back to the folk fold in later life, only to find a bunch of the true believers blocking the door, merschaum pipes gritted, tankards in full throttle 'fight' mode, beards all wet with slobber and a-jut, saying "don't you think you're getting in here now..."

Note to the concerned: that last paragraph deeply exaggerates my position for 'comic' effect.